Upcoming Events
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Cancellation Policy:
If you are unable to attend a live webinar, you must cancel at least 48 hours before the event begins. You may transfer the funds from your registration to another event but refunds are not available unless requested 1 week prior to the start of the event.
Couldn't make it to an event? We have self-study courses too!
If you like learning independently and at your own convenience, we have recorded almost all of our core trainings and made them available in a self-study format. You can earn non-contact Continuing Education credits too!
Training Calendar
Play Therapy & Compassion Fatigue
Date(s):
July 15th
Time:
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST
(with a 30 min. lunch break)
Students Fee:
$100/person/day
Professionals Fee: $150/person/day
CEUs: 5.5 total
Presented by:
Jodi Mullen, Ph.D. LMHC CCPT-Master RPT-S
Description:
It’s a lot. We know how much you love your work with children and their families. Providing
play therapy is simultaneously rewarding and can be incredibly energy depleting. In this
unique and timely webinar play therapists will have the opportunity to identify and
understand how and why the work of play therapy impacts us so immensely. We will
consider how when working with children, we as clinicians must take into considerations our
own experience of the work. Preventing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma will be
addressed through the lens of wellness so that play therapists gain a greater understanding of
how their overall health and clinical stamina can be maintained and even improved so that
they can keep doing their best work; focusing on helping children heal through play therapy.
In this course, participants will have multiple authentic learning experiences.
Objectives:
By the end of this webinar participants are able to:
1) Identify common triggers for compassion fatigue in the clinical work of play therapy.
2) Describe how play therapists can prevent compassion fatigue.
3) Describe how to identify compassion fatigue in self and supervisees.
Continuing Education - 5.5 CEs
*Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for (5.5 hrs) CONTACT CE Hours. In order to receive contact CEs for this training, you must keep your camera on at all times during the live session.
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.
Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.
Working with Aggression in Play Therapy & Child Counseling
Date(s):
September 9th
Time:
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
Students Fee:
$120/person
Professionals Fee:
$150/person
CEUs: 2.5 total
Presented by:
Jodi Mullen, Ph.D. LMHC CCPT-Master RPT-S
Description:
When play therapists and child mental health professionals take into account that the world of children is vastly different from that of adults we can better connect with them, understand their perspective, and make sense of their behavior. Aggression and aggressive behavior are just ways children are communicating to us about their inner model of how the world works, their experiences, and frequently their trauma. Unfortunately, aggression in childhood even in the therapeutic playroom, is often looked at through lenses of pathology and fear. In this webinar, we will focus on the unique opportunities children who demonstrate aggression provide in play therapy and counseling when our work is centered in viewing play, even aggressive play, as communication, understanding our counter transference and employing limit setting that facilitates prosocialness.
Objectives:
By the end of this webinar participants are able to:
1. Understand how limit setting can be used to help children make pro-social changes.
2. Challenge the typical ways aggressive behavior is viewed in children and their therapeutic play.
3. Identify the potential meanings of children’s aggressive play.
4. Identify how trauma and aggression are connected.
5. Describe how counter transference impacts the relationship with the child.
Continuing Education - 2.5 CEs
*Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for (2.5 hrs) CONTACT CE Hours. In order to receive contact CEs for this training, you must keep your camera on at all times during the live session.
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.
Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.
Play Therapy Basic Training
Date(s):
September 20th - 21st (AVAILABLE)
Time:
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST
(with a 1 hour lunch break each day)
Students Fee:
$125/person/day
Professionals Fee: $175/person/day
CEUs: 12 total (6 per day)
Presented by:
Jodi Mullen, Ph.D. LMHC CCPT-Master RPT-S
Day 1 Description:
Mental health and educational professionals who work with children can significantly
benefit from training in play therapy. The most basic skills in play therapy can improve rapport and subsequently relationships with children (professional AND personal). In this workshop participants will learn basic play therapy skills to engage children (from infancy through the elementary grades) in play therapy. Developmental and cultural issues relevant to this population will be addressed and many practical and dynamic interventions will be demonstrated.
Day 2 Description:
Mental health and educational professionals who have attended Play Therapy Basic
Training 1 or have initial training in Child-Centered Play Therapy can significantly benefit from this seminar. In this workshop, participants will review play therapy to further their knowledge and skills. Advanced skills training through role-plays and practice exercises will be included to increase experience and knowledge on play therapy. Participants will also have the opportunity to reflect on their previous training and ask questions.
Day 1 Objectives:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
1) Identify three ways to use play therapy with children; 2) Replicate play therapy techniques
suitable for children; 3) Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and
emotional needs of children 4) Accurately identify feelings in children 5) Explain the culture of childhood as it relates to Play Therapy, 6) Describe the play therapy approach with children.
Day 2 Objectives:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
1) Describe the child-centered play therapy process and have first-hand experience through
authentic learning and practice, 2) Identify key themes that may present themselves in a child's play and understand their significance, 3) Develop strategies for approaching common play therapy issues 4) Describe how and why limits are set in play therapy, 5) Create a foundation for utilizing limiting setting in clinical practice of play therapy, 6) List what toys are appropriate in the therapeutic play room.
Continuing Education - 12 CEs (6 per day)
*Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for (12 hrs) CONTACT CE Hours. In order to receive contact CEs for this training, you must keep your camera on at all times during the live session.
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.
Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.
Consulting with Parents in Play Therapy & Child Counseling
Date(s):
October 7th
Time:
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
(with a 30 min. lunch break)
Students Fee:
$110/person/day
Professionals Fee: $160/person/day
CEUs: 5 total
Presented by:
Jodi Mullen, Ph.D. LMHC CCPT-Master RPT-S
Description:
Child mental health professionals, including (and especially) play therapists often
describe difficulty not in the clinical work with children, but in the consultation with
parents and caregivers. That does not have to be the case. In this workshop, we will
focus on multiple communication and consulting skills that facilitate relationships with
parents, and caregivers while still honoring the children and the culture of childhood.
Additionally, the esteem of child mental health professionals who are also play
therapists will be bolstered.
Objectives: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1) Identify three ways to communicate the benefits of play therapy,
2) Have experience and replicate communication and consulting techniques suitable for
dealing with parents, and caregivers,
3) Use communication and consulting skills to address the questions of parents and
caregivers,
4) Describe ways to address the vulnerabilities in parents and caregivers,
5) Create boundaries that facilitate parent and play therapist communication,
6) Name specific strategies to use in consulting with parents and caregivers,
7) Share about the child’s session in ways support the child and the parents and
caregivers.
*Participants will receive a free copy of our "How Play Therapists Can Engage Parents and Professionals" book!
Continuing Education - 5 CEs
*Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for (5 hrs) CONTACT CE Hours. In order to receive contact CEs for this training, you must keep your camera on at all times during the live session.
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.
Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.
Creating a Virtual Play Therapy Room
Dates:
December 17th (SOLD OUT)
January 3rd (SOLD OUT)
January 12th (SOLD OUT)
January 24th (SOLD OUT)
February 7th (SOLD OUT)
March 18th (SOLD OUT)
March 28th (SOLD OUT)
*Private Sessions Available:
Inquire via email: fayeswettics@gmail.com
Times:
Sunday Sessions are from:
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST
Thursday Sessions are from:
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. EST
Student Fee: $100
Professional Fee: $120
CEUs: 2 total
*This course counts as contact hours upon completion of a post-training quiz.
How can we use technology to recreate the warmth and safety of the play therapy room?
In this webinar, you will learn how to create a virtual play therapy room to use with your clients. We will start with the basics involved in setting up “rooms”, and then select items and activities for your play therapy room that facilitate a wide range of emotional and creative expression.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1) Apply the technical skills needed to set up a virtual play therapy room and utilize it effectively during live sessions with clients.
2) Create their own virtual play therapy room, which aligns with their therapeutic orientation and personal style.
3) Identify ways to individualize their virtual play therapy rooms to meet the needs of each client.
"Participants in this training must be comfortable with basic computer skills such as: searching the internet, navigating between browser tabs, copy/pasting, minimizing windows, etc. If you are interested in this webinar but require a slower pace, please register for the beginner level workshop on March 21."
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Jennifer Johnson, LCSW, RPT-S is a play therapist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked in the field of children’s mental health for over a decade, and was previously the Clinical Director of the largest preschool children’s day treatment program in NYC. She has extensive experience treating children with a variety of emotional and behavioral challenges, traumatic experiences, attachment difficulties, and developmental delays. Jennifer received her master's degree in social work from Columbia University in 2008, and her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clark University in 2004.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.
Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.
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